I really want to explain this title more, but my free time is quite limited these days. In short: you might want to lower timings instead of increasing the memory frequency when running Phenom2 and DDR3. Tony (from OCZ) has been testing the influence of the memory frequency in comparison to lowering the timings, here are the results: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=224502

The OCZ Blades are quite suited for the low-latency work: 700MHz CL5 at 1.65v :-).

treu and not treu john , it change's from bench mark to benchmark back in the 939socket time.
exampel. 05 with TCCD @ 300+mhz 2.5-3.3.8 orso would have killed BH-5 @ 270mhz 2-2-2-5. both 1T, but then again in 01 BH-5 owned. the bench just loved it.

that a good exampel , its now with 3gb kits vs 6gb kits in 32M superPI.
the 6gb give's u the edge there, thoughe i could not test any my self. i would like to know what other benches benefet from it .

The results are good, but not excellent. I reckon the AM3 could benefit from 1GHz CL7 even in terms of latencies, but the current technology just doesn't allow us to go beyond 900MHz stable (and even that is quite difficult).

I'm not sure if it's IMC-quality related. I'd sure like to test (another) 955 to check if I can get >900MHz or not.